A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

The world's longest known cave system.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.